Jennifer Riddle
Exhibitions
Lost and Found: a painted landscape
Scott Livesey Galleries, 06/10/2021 to 30/10/2021
Finding a sense of clarity and peacefulness in a time of overwhelming uncertainty is becoming increasingly tough as we battle to navigate the complexities of our rapidly changing world. However, such challenging times may also offer us a time to reflect on what we have lost, reevaluate what is important to us and reconcile our innate relationship with nature - and maybe even each other. Scholars are now confirming what the Indigenous and other ancient cultures have known for centuries - that we are a part of nature, not apart from it. A fundamental connection that is imperative for the future of our environment as well as our psych... Read More >
Embrace
Scott Livesey Galleries, 07/10/2020 to 31/10/2020
Jennifer Riddle | EmbraceInformed by the current mood surrounding our disconnection to our environment and humanity, I return my thoughts to my pastoral surroundings and reflect on the past 20 years where I’ve found peace, refuge, and healing in the sublime beauty that is characteristic to this hinterland landscape in Red Hill, Victoria.Through loss, I’ve received an understanding of the profound effect nature has on our physical and mental wellbeing — a connection that is vitally important not just to our health but for the health of our natural world. With an emphasis on renewing our senses to natures beauty, my work aims to... Read More >
Reverence - Pastures to the Wild
Scott Livesey Galleries, 10/10/2018 to 03/11/2018
There is much to learn from the land. The more I experience in life, the more I’m drawn to nature’s wisdom, beauty and its transcendental majesty.This exhibition surveys both the familiar rural lands of my home on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula and my recent discovery of the ancient wilderness of Tasmania’s southwest. Both landscapes differ in their physical form—one altered and tamed, the other untouched and raw—and yet they share a sense of harmony and discord, strength and vulnerability, life and decay. They are stoic reminders of our land’s endurance and fragility, its resilience and vulnerability, and reveal the ... Read More >
